Campbell: Graduates of Campbell High School are planning an all-school reunion

Did you or did someone you know graduate from Campbell High School? If so, an upcoming event will be right up your alley.

Graduates of Campbell High School are invited to attend an all-school reunion on June 21 from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the Orchard City Banquet Hall at the Campbell Community Center. Anyone who graduated between 1938 and 1980 is welcome to attend. However, attendees must sign up online by June 6.

Organizer Jan Taylor, who graduated from Campbell High School in 1969, said that as far as she knows, this is the first ever all-school reunion for Campbell High School graduates.

Taylor's mother, sister, brother and cousins all graduated from Campbell High School. Taylor's mother, who graduated in 1943 and is now 91 years old, plans to attend the event.

The reunion will include music throughout the day, Panera Bread box lunches and a slideshow presentation that will play continuously over the course of the day. The slideshow will include photos from the Campbell Historical Society, submitted photos and yearbook photos from as far back as 1944.

"We're trying to really do it right," Taylor said.

Taylor is expecting 700 to 1,000 attendees. So far, the oldest graduate to purchase tickets is from the class of 1943.

Taylor said the organizers tried to keep the price down.

"Most of us didn't want something formal. We just wanted to be able to come, hang out, spend time at the campus and see everybody," she said.

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Attendees are coming from places as far away as Colorado, Hawaii, North Carolina and Montana, Taylor said.

"We're so lucky, we think, to have grown up in Campbell, a small community," she said. "Everybody cared about each other."

Those who wish to attend, can register on the event page at campbell highreunion2014.event brite.com. Non-refundable tickets can be purchased for $25 with a credit card until June 6. Tickets won't be sold at the door.